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My home is not a place, it is people.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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It was suicide, wasn't it? In an involuntary sort of way, said Vorob'yev. These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate. Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw? murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. Exactly, my lord.
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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. Are you all right? Yes. Sorry, he whispered. I'm just having an attack of limericks. Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip only her deepening dimple betrayed her. Shhh, she said, with feeling.
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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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